Codebook for "Representation in Municipal Government"
abb: State abbreviation
city_id: Unique id for each city that authors created
gov_id: Census of Government Finances ID for each city
city: City name
place_fips: Census place fips code for each city
raw_ideology: Disaggregated measure of each city's policy conservatism (not used in paper, use MRP measure below)
pres_2008: Presidential vote share in 2008 (calculated from precinct-level data from the Harvard Election Data Archive)
percent_black: Percent black in 2000
salestax_share: Percent of taxes from sales tax
local_salestax_allowed: Binary indicator for whether state allows cities to collect sales taxes
taxes_capita: Taxes per capita
policy: Scaled policy measure, based on ICMA Sustainability Survey
partisan_elections2: Binary indicator for whether city has partisan elections
perc_atlarge2: Percent of city-council districts elected at-large
initiative2: Binary indicator for whether city has direct democracy
expenditures_capita: Expenditures per capita
term_limits2: Binary indicator for whether city has term limits
median_income: Median household income (in $100,000's of dollars)
city_pop: Median household income (in 100,000's of people) 
house_value	fog2: Average housing value (in $100,000's of dollars)  
mrp_ideology: MRP-based estimated of each city's policy conservatism (measure used in paper)
mrp_ideology_sd: standard deviation of MRP-based estimated of each city's policy conservatism (measure used in paper)
mrp_ideology_lower: 2.5% of credible interval for MRP-based estimated of each city's policy conservatism (measure used in paper)	
mrp_ideology_upper: 97.5% of credible interval for MRP-based estimated of each city's policy conservatism (measure used in paper)	
pal_binary: Binary indicator for whether city has any at-large districts
region_political: Region that city falls in